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Giving back: Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda in HCM City’s District 3 offers its space to the HCM City Humanitarian Blood Donation Centre twice a year for blood donation events. Viet Nam News Story and photos by Hoàng Nguyên HCM CITY — Monks and Buddhist followers were among the volunteer donors at an event held at Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda in HCM City’s District 3 on Sunday (August 12). International friends: Brent Rogers from the US donates blood for the first time in Việt Nam after learning about the event from a Vietnamese friend. He was the first foreigner to participate in the event at the pagoda. Stings a bit: Monks rest after donating blood. The pagoda supports the HCM City Humanitarian Blood Donation Centre in organising blood donation events twice a year in March and April, and July and August. Careful now: Donors have their blood pressure and pulse checked by medical staff from the HCM … [Read more...] about Monks donate blood at Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda

Hundreds of doctors and staff at two hospitals in Hanoi donated blood on the Vietnam Doctors' Day on February 27. Doctors donate blood on February 27 About 200 staff at Vietnam National Cancer Hospital participated in the White Shirt, Red Heart blood donation event to celebrate Vietnam Doctors' Day. More than 150 units of blood were collected. Vietnam National Cancer Hospital Director Tran Van Thuan said the annual event had been held for three years. Last year, Vietnam National Cancer Hospital carried out over 21,000 operations, an increase of 37% than the previous year. This underlines the high demand for blood at hospitals and the pressure on both doctors and patients. Blood shortages are a huge challenge and a motivation for doctors to donate blood to patients. On the same day, Hanoi Eye Hospital 2 collaborated with National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion to hold the blood donation event for doctors. Dr Tran Ngoc Hung from Hanoi Eye Hospital 2 said, "As … [Read more...] about Doctors donate blood on Doctors’ Day

Many people donated blood in the Red Journey campaign in Tuyen Quang province on July 6 (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Thousands of people in northern mountainous and central provinces have braved the severe hot weather to take part in blood donation events of the Red Journey campaign over the past days. Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of northern Lang Son province Nguyen Long Hai said this was the fifth time the Red Journey had been held in the locality. This year’s event was organised in not only Lang Son city but also the border district of Loc Binh, helping to call for more support for the voluntary blood donation movement. On July 3 ad 4, over 1,030 blood units were collected, a record of the programme in Lang Son so far. In the neighbouring province of Cao Bang, the scorching heat was also unable to deter many people, mainly from ethnic minority groups like Tay, Nung, Mong and Dao, from queuing up to wait for their turn to donate blood on July 6. To … [Read more...] about People brave severe heat to donate blood in many provinces

Workers from industrial zones donate blood. (Photo: VNA)Truong Minh Thang, Deputy President of the Bac Ninh provincial Red Cross, said that the program will be promoted in industrial zones, in particular, in Yen Phong industrial zone in June, and in Que Vo industrial zone as well as other industrial and export processing zones in July and August. According to NIHBT representatives, the period between June and August often sees serious shortages of blood for medical treatment at hospitals. The voluntary blood donation launched in industrial zones, including Samsung Vietnam Complex with more than 10,000 participants, will make a great contribution to deal with the shortages. Statistics from NIHBT show that in 2017, more than 21,700 Samsung staff alone donated 18,000 units of blood./. Compiled by BTA … [Read more...] about Workers donate blood

In the meeting, around 220 students who have donated their blood five to fifteen times received certificates of the province’s steering board of voluntary blood donation. In addition, the Red Cross Society of Vietnam gave certificates of merit to the live blood bank club of the university. The club has collected 3,850 units of blood to save people. By VAN THANG – Translated by UYEN PHUONG Tags: blood donors honored donating blood many times … [Read more...] about Over two hundred blood donors honored for donating blood many times